单词 | supercherie |
释义 | supercherien. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack upon one at a disadvantage supercherie1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Soperchiaria, a superchierie, a wrong or iniury offred with ods or aduantage, also superfluitie, an affront. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxvii. 400 It is a Superchiery,..as being wel armed, to charge a man who hath but a piece of a sword, or being sound and strong, to set vpon a man sore hurt. 1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 380 By their supercherie violence and terrifications. 1679 T. Pierce Decad of Caveats to People Eng. 296 The treacherous Lusts of the Flesh..assault the Spirit in its own House, and (which is the worst of all Supercherie) as they find it fast asleep in the Bed of Carnal Security. 2. Chiefly in French contexts, or after French use. Trickery, deception, deceit. Also: an instance of this; a trick, a piece of deception. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] swikec893 swikedomc893 dwalec950 braida1000 falsec1000 flerdc1000 swikelnessa1023 fakenOE chuffingc1175 fikenungc1175 bipechingc1200 treachery?c1225 falseshipc1230 guilec1230 telingc1230 swikeheada1250 craftc1275 felony1297 wrench1297 deceitc1300 gabc1300 guiling13.. guilery1303 quaintisec1325 wrenk1338 beswiking1340 falsehood1340 abetc1350 wissing1357 wilec1374 faitery1377 faiting1377 tregetryc1380 fallacec1384 trainc1390 coverture1393 facrere1393 ficklenessc1397 falsagea1400 tregeta1400 abusionc1405 blearingc1405 deceptionc1430 mean?c1430 tricotc1430 obreption1465 fallacy1481 japery1496 gauderya1529 fallax1530 conveyance1531 legerdemain1532 dole1538 trompe1547 joukery1562 convoyance1578 forgery1582 abetment1586 outreaching1587 chicanery1589 falsery1594 falsity1603 fubbery1604 renaldry1612 supercherie1621 circumduction1623 fobbinga1627 dice-play1633 beguile1637 fallaxitya1641 ingannation1646 hocus1652 renardism1661 dodgerya1670 knapping1671 trap1681 joukery-pawkery1686 jugglery1699 take-in1772 tripotage1779 trickery1801 ruse1807 dupery1816 nailing1819 pawkery1820 hanky-panky1841 hokey-pokey1847 suck-in1856 phenakisma1863 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 dodginess1871 jiggery-pokery1893 flim-flammery1898 runaround1915 hanky1924 to give the go-around1925 Scandiknavery1927 the twist1933 hype1955 mamaguy1971 1621 E. Grimeston tr. J. Guillemard Combat betwixt Man & Death i. xxii. 380 [They] make a shewe of friendship to allure... But it is to..practise some supercherie; they wil kisse the hand, which they would gladly see burnt. 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 168 All men know these Messengers [sc. the senses] are unfaithfull,..and that Nature hath given her [sc. the soul] an inward light, to free herself from their Superchery. ?1715 M. Davies Present & Primitive State Arianism 3 He was not likely to succeed in that Supercherie, by Reason of..almost unavoidable Certainty of being discover'd immediately. 1781 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 13 July (1904) 27 That I might not contribute..to any legal supercherie, I insisted on writing down before Lucas the very words I would use to you. 1811 W. Gifford Let. 25 Aug. in Select. from Corr. M. Napier (1879) 3 A little supercherie of which I have been guilty in filching a couple of lines from one of your quotations. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxviii. 267 Ah, my faithful Frederic, I pardon thee! Mr. Newcome will understand my harmless supercherie. 1891 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 229/2 When her first husband turns up..she would gladly elude him by a supercherie. She tries the plan of a feigned death. 1911 E. Smith Life Sir Joseph Banks xi. 179 One of the oddest supercheries of the day was a pretended diary of the King, in which he is supposed to be portraying the characters..of some of the courtiers. 2005 Guardian (Nexis) 23 June 25 According to France's foreign minister, the British foreign secretary is guilty of perpetrating a supercherie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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